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02SIIM Hackathon · 2nd Place

Agent00HL7

LLM agents × radiology reports × patient literacy

Mission accepted: creating trustworthy, patient-friendly letters from radiology reports with an agentic LLM workflow.

With Alina Yang and Estella Yee · SIIM 2024

The problem

The 21st Century Cures Act gave patients much greater access to their health records — but radiology reports are full of difficult language and medical jargon, which can lead to misinterpretation and anxiety.

What we built

  • AI-generated letters that explain a radiology report in plain language while preserving its medical context and accuracy
  • An accuracy check that matches ICD-10 codes between the original report and the letter
  • A readability check using the Flesch-Kincaid metric
  • A workflow that reduces how much proofreading medical professionals need to do

Agentic workflow

  • Instead of one zero-shot prompt, the letter goes through an iterative self-refinement loop based on the Reflexion framework for AI agents
  • Each draft is checked for accuracy (do the letter's ICD-10 codes match the report's?) and readability (Flesch-Kincaid)
  • The loop is programmatic, so it improves accuracy while minimizing the need for human input

Technologies

LLM agentsReflexionICD-10 codesFlesch-Kincaid

Screenshots

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Outcomes

  • Tested on 20 randomized radiology reports
  • 94.94% ICD-10 verification accuracy with the multi-agent approach, vs. 68.23% with zero-shot prompting
  • 81.25% of final letters needed no corrections for accuracy or readability, vs. 25% of zero-shot letters
  • 2nd place at the SIIM Hackathon

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